My friend Chris Annetts set up a wonderful little creative community outlet in Campbeltown. It’s called First Tuesday, and it happens appropriately on the first Tuesday in the month at lunchtime in the local library. Bringing together one local songster, and a local writer or writers, they take it in turns to present five songs and five written poems or wee stories.

It’s proving popular and is a great opportunity for local creative artists to show folk what they’re up to. A donation is taken, that goes towards supporting the library….which, if you weren’t aware, need all the support they can get at the moment. Like many very useful things libraries are precisely the kind of useful things which are under threat from the never ending cuts we seem to be experiencing.

But don’t worry. Apparently the tax cuts to everybody earning over £150,000 per annum is going to sort all of that out.

In the real world, of course, grass roots ANYTHING will disappear unless we ourselves look after the grass. Or unless we grow some new grass! That’s the reality of the current climate in the UK at least.

So I’m delighted to be playing myself at Campbeltown Library this First Tuesday coming, and have prepared a set list, with a topical literary theme.

Including…The Book.

Would be daft not to include that one.